Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann MartelI know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Yann MartelIt is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
Yann MartelMusic is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
Yann MartelI've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.
Yann Martel